Saturday: Lehigh Media Day

As we approach "the most wonderful time of the year" (football season), our beloved Mountain Hawks are now entering their second week of practice. Lehigh's official website has announced on LehighSports.Com that Lehigh Media Day will be held at 10:00AM at Goodman this Saturday. Team pictures will be taken, and coaches will grant interviews with the local media until around 11:00AM. After lunch, the Mountain Hawks will scrimmage at Murray Goodman at 2:30PM for their regular summer practice.

I'll be unable to go (due to other commitments), but I'll be eager to hear the report from not only the local media but any fans who wish to give reports on what they see.

Now's a good a time as any to report what I've noticed so far in practice, from folks I've talked to and what I've researched so far.

Our "Class of 2010" got a little smaller as one OL (I can't remember his name) was removed from the list. It shouldn't be a huge issue for this year, but next year I'm hoping to be a great year recruiting OL.
On the positive side, notice sophomore OLs Kevin Bayani and Patrick Casey are now listed at 300 lbs, joining penciled-in starter Jimmy Kehs as the big guys on the line. It will be very interesting to see if one, or both, will be starting on what could potentially be the biggest "O" line in the PL.
DT Royce Morgan? Don't worry, he's there. There was some concern that he wasn't going to be playing this year (mostly from his accidental omission in the media guide), but he's penciled-in as well at DT.
Coach Coen singled out the freshman linebacking corps of Matt Cohen, Al Pierce, and Heath Brickner for praise, complicating an already-crowded race for linebacking spots. Aside from senior OLB Matt Mohler - a lock for starting - anything could happen on the LB depth chart. The big question - is senior ILB Travis Stinson's job safe?
Could RB Marques Thompson see some time at WR, with RBs Matt McGowan and Kent State traansfer RB Josh Pastore looking for touches? Not to mention FB Greg Fay as well. Seems pretty plausible... And don't forget scatback RB Richard Forman either. There are a lot of good RBs in camp dying for touches.
OK, you knew that junior QB Sedale Threatt was the starter. But tell me that seeing his stats on the roster at 6'3 210lbs didn't make you smile. Maybe Sedale will earn that nickname "The Total Package" before all is said and done... especially if that "O" line will be as big as I think it is.
Sedale can talk. If you haven't heard a portion of my interview with him on I-AA Waves on 8/8, please go download it now. I can't wait to get him in another interview, hopefully.
Everyone I've talked to, to a person, has talked about how excited they are about *practice*. Players, coaches, staff - they feel real excitement coming into the fall.

There will be more this coming week in this space on the last week of practice. If you can, attend Lehigh's media day!

How The Ivy League Is Able To Break the NCAA's Scholarship Limits and Still Consider Themselves FCS

By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League. W

UMass 21, Lafayette 14, halftime

Are you watching this game? UMass had this game under control until about 3 minutes in the second quarter, and then got an interception, converted for a TD. Then the Leopards forced a fumble off the return, and then converted THAT for a TD, making this a game. It's on CN8. You really should be watching this.

Examining A Figure Skating Rivalry: Tonya and Nancy

It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics. If you're of a certain age, though - whether you're a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating - the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples' attention, twenty years later. Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly , idiot "bodyguards", and the whole sordid affair? I think it's because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium. The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who

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